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With a focus on natural language processing (NLP) and the role of large language models (LLMs), we explore the intersection of machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence. As artificial intelligence continues to…

As natural language processing (NLP) for gender bias becomes a significant interdisciplinary topic, the prevalent data-driven techniques such as large-scale language models suffer from data inadequacy and biased corpus, especially for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Ge Zhang , Yizhi Li , Yaoyao Wu , Linyuan Zhang , Chenghua Lin , Jiayi Geng , Shi Wang , Jie Fu

Gender bias in natural language processing (NLP) applications, particularly machine translation, has been receiving increasing attention. Much of the research on this issue has focused on mitigating gender bias in English NLP models and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Bashar Alhafni , Nizar Habash , Houda Bouamor

Language serves as a powerful tool for the manifestation of societal belief systems. In doing so, it also perpetuates the prevalent biases in our society. Gender bias is one of the most pervasive biases in our society and is seen in online…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Rishav Hada , Agrima Seth , Harshita Diddee , Kalika Bali

Pretrained Language Models (PLMs) are widely used in NLP for various tasks. Recent studies have identified various biases that such models exhibit and have proposed methods to correct these biases. However, most of the works address a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Prachi Jain , Ashutosh Sathe , Varun Gumma , Kabir Ahuja , Sunayana Sitaram

Large Language Models (LLMs) inherit explicit and implicit biases from their training datasets. Identifying and mitigating biases in LLMs is crucial to ensure fair outputs, as they can perpetuate harmful stereotypes and misinformation. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Fatima Kazi , Alex Young , Yash Inani , Setareh Rafatirad

Gender biases in language generation systems are challenging to mitigate. One possible source for these biases is gender representation disparities in the training and evaluation data. Despite recent progress in documenting this problem and…

Multilingual Pre-trained Language Models (MPLMs) have become essential tools for natural language processing. However, they often exhibit biases related to sensitive attributes such as gender, race, and religion. In this paper, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Haoyu Liang , Peijian Zeng , Wentao Huang , Aimin Yang , Dong Zhou

This research delves into the current literature on bias in Natural Language Processing Models and the techniques proposed to mitigate the problem of bias, including why it is important to tackle bias in the first place. Additionally, these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Ali Ayaz , Aditya Nawalgaria , Ruilian Yin

This paper is a summary of the work done in my PhD thesis. Where I investigate the impact of bias in NLP models on the task of hate speech detection from three perspectives: explainability, offensive stereotyping bias, and fairness. Then, I…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Fatma Elsafoury

Societal bias towards certain communities is a big problem that affects a lot of machine learning systems. This work aims at addressing the racial bias present in many modern gender recognition systems. We learn race invariant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Komal K. Teru , Aishik Chakraborty

As natural language processing for gender bias becomes a significant interdisciplinary topic, the prevalent data-driven techniques, such as pre-trained language models, suffer from biased corpus. This case becomes more obvious regarding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yizhi Li , Ge Zhang , Hanhua Hong , Yiwen Wang , Chenghua Lin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have excelled at language understanding and generating human-level text. However, even with supervised training and human alignment, these LLMs are susceptible to adversarial attacks where malicious users can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Shachi H Kumar , Saurav Sahay , Sahisnu Mazumder , Eda Okur , Ramesh Manuvinakurike , Nicole Beckage , Hsuan Su , Hung-yi Lee , Lama Nachman

The presence of social biases in large language models (LLMs) has become a significant concern in AI research. These biases, often embedded in training data, can perpetuate harmful stereotypes and distort decision-making processes. When…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Amirabbas Afzali , Amirreza Velae , Iman Ahmadi , Mohammad Aliannejadi

Our work focuses on the biases that emerge in the natural language generation (NLG) task of sentence completion. In this paper, we introduce a framework of fairness for NLG followed by an evaluation of gender biases in two state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Catherine Yeo , Alyssa Chen

Modern NLP systems exhibit a range of biases, which a growing literature on model debiasing attempts to correct. However current progress is hampered by a plurality of definitions of bias, means of quantification, and oftentimes vague…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xudong Han , Timothy Baldwin , Trevor Cohn

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of bias mitigation methods for achieving fairness in Machine Learning (ML) models. We collect a total of 341 publications concerning bias mitigation for ML classifiers. These methods can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Max Hort , Zhenpeng Chen , Jie M. Zhang , Mark Harman , Federica Sarro

Recent work has shown pre-trained language models capture social biases from the large amounts of text they are trained on. This has attracted attention to developing techniques that mitigate such biases. In this work, we perform an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Nicholas Meade , Elinor Poole-Dayan , Siva Reddy

Social bias in language - towards genders, ethnicities, ages, and other social groups - poses a problem with ethical impact for many NLP applications. Recent research has shown that machine learning models trained on respective data may not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Maximilian Spliethöver , Henning Wachsmuth

Bolukbasi et al. (2016) presents one of the first gender bias mitigation techniques for word representations. Their method takes pre-trained word representations as input and attempts to isolate a linear subspace that captures most of the…

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